skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it would make a considerable difference. Not mentioned in the post, but I have a limited unlimited free trial. Taking into account the usage limits, it's not useful for a production deployment so it applies pressure once integrated. That way I only apply pressure to those that actually integrated.

If I were to do a timed trial again, it'd apply pressure to evaluate and plan the integration right now, and the product may not even be at the stage where they're ready to do that yet i.e. still in dev. This needlessly applies friction, which I want to avoid doing until they're ready.
Solidarity is literally sticking together, even when something doesn't directly benefit you.

Arguing that it's "dishonest" solidarity if you're not directly affected is so backwards I can't assume you're coming from a very honest place.
read-only limited by the date the text was submitted. anything after "singularity" would be suspect as AI generated.
I just get the tobacco flavored pods, use them up, and refill with various nicotine salt liquids. I get ten to twenty refills out of a cartridge.

Haven't found a juice that matches the OG mango pods but I have a few in rotation that I like. I do miss the brief Cambrian explosion in third-party pods, before the FDA decided that "the youf" should switch to disposables, but at this point I'm just grateful that Juul is still in business, it's pretty much in a class of its own.
The way I think about this is:

You already are in "debt" by being alive. You have the huge liabilities of needing food and housing and maybe sometimes some healthcare, in order to stay alive.

By buying a perpetual source of one of those you aren't investing or expanding your liabilities-- just the opposite, you are hedging against and closing out your liability by prepaying for it. To take this idea further, this is why I think buying a little bit of stock in energy and agriculture companies is "risk free" because while they could go down if those things get cheaper, you would then win out as a consumer. You will need food and energy down the line anyway, so a modest investment in those closes out that hedge rather than expanding liability
Wow. Maybe if WinCE had this kind of thorough documentation back then it would have done better. Excellent article and history lesson.
> Also, what they were doing is outright illegal in Europe.

Do you mean because they required another unrelated service? Because ubisoft/EA etc. do that too.

Or do you mean because they sold a product and then changed it? Because the requirement was documented from the start, just not enforced until the patch.
I think it's unacceptable that a third-party driver is necessary to record system audio on Mac. Both Windows and Linux have been able to natively record system audio for at least 20 years now. I consider it a basic required feature for something like screencasting.
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Since the invention of the pointy stick already.
Way more of those kids are vaping marijuana, which has an orders of magnitude lower threat profile than both smoking AND tobacco vape oil rigs.

Also, even full smoking of marijuana is less dirty than smoking cigs, and a significant amount of marijuana smokers use things like bongs, bubblers, and other water filtration systems which do (slightly) reduce the harm of the smoke.

Marijuana is straight up harm reduction over big tobacco.
Manhattan is technically just the R&D component, the full Manhattan is the trillion+ US has spend on building out the nuclear force and 1T+ more it will spend to modernize in next 30 years.
True, but that is not the situation most of humanity is facing.
I'm not qualified to expound on it but the featured article doesn't cover opportunity cost, and a scale of risk appetites. To name just two concepts it's missing.
> Researchers have found elevated levels of a benthic dinoflagellate called gambierdiscus in the water, but have not labeled it as an official cause thus far.
So $10K extra per car? Assuming we're talking the US here where the average price of a new car is under $50K, that's more than a 20% bollard tax.
It seems obvious that the conversion rate was higher among people who wanted extensions, because the people who don't are the ones who already decided not to use it; rarely are people going to turn down more free time to use something and rush to ask to be allowed to pay for it (though it does happen- I've been part of procurements that were being rushed to use an existing FY budget, for instance).

Another thing you need to work out, imo, is what level of *feature use* in your application best maps to conversions, and from there, how can you improve the likelihood of people seeing the benefits of that feature use.

As an example, my current company's app can be used with or without agent deployments, and we saw that trials that deployed agents- even just one-off ones in lab envs- converted at a far higher rate than non-agent trials.

So we worked to lower the perceived barrier of entry that agent deployments posed, which meant more people seeing the increased usefulness they provided, which meant more conversions.
Ask HN: Any real-time human lang translation AI for video yet?
It's all affiliate links and all the plans it suggests are yearly or longer plans because that way he gets the most affiliate compensation. Don't go with any of these options and don't trust any of the suggestions, they are not honest.

The prices also aren't even accurate.

"$1.00/ month for 6 months", meanwhile the price is actually $6/mo for 36 months (billed 12mo in advance) and then $12/mo.

"Business Package at $3.99/month for 48 months saving $480 compared to the regular price.
It renews at the then-current rate, currently $8.99/month"

That's also wrong, the price is $3.19 for 48 months not $3.99, the current renewal price is $12.99, not $8.99

The recommendations are also just absurd, I picked: 2-10 websites, 40-100gb storage, small traffic and performance needs, european audience, no domain, no email, no ssl, no backups, no moneyback guarantee

It gave me a plan for 100 websites that costs $10/mo at renewal with "free" email and "free" domain (site says $7.99 but that's also wrong!)... it also suggested I should lock myself in for 48 months!

"Best" in this case just means whatever makes the most affiliate revenue for this guy.
So many of them are just API calls to chatGPT.
I'm always exploring new graphing libraries. Are you happy to share a link to yours?
Too bad OpenAI already scrapped all of this data years ago and is in a position of power here.
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Wrote about this recently, you may find interesting:

Terms are grouped according to their similarity, forming clustered islands of concepts and semantic comprehensions.

These clusters are then situated within an atmosphere, creating what is known as an embedding space.

To unleash and fully utilize the power of the LLM, we engage in a statistical game of hopscotch, swiftly moving from island-to-island, grouping-to-grouping.

[0] https://satisologie.substack.com/p/ways-to-understand-the-op...
That model of visual-memory-centered skeumorphism died in the 90's. Because for a majority of people, they get no benefit from persistent visual placement of content, or visual differentiation of documents, and can't cope with the "desktop" in REAL life, much less the metaphor that was "every desktop UX between the Mother of All Demoes and the death of even trying that was the iPhone" now people interact with the world through vertically siloed apps which all have different management models for content, and make it easier to charge you feudal rent on what would otherwise be your own possessions.

And what especially galls me is that if you suggest this "skeumorphic" model to OSS devs, they act like you're crazy. Even if it's something simple like "the Indigo Magic Desktop's scalable line art icons that had animated states". Suggesting visual interfaces seems to grossly offend people who develop software.
Nicotine is only addictive when the delivery method causes a concentration/time spike in the bloodstream. Cigarettes, vaping, and gum in particular cause large concentration spikes, but many other delivery mechanisms do not.

I've been on nicotine patches for several years (treating ADHD - very effective) and I'm not addicted at all. I still forget and my wife often has to remind me to put on one! There are no reports to the contrary among patch users.

In fact, even moderate pipe smoking reportedly isn't addictive - although it certainly is pleasurable (partly due to the nicotine, but mostly due to other compounds in the smoke). Pipe tobacco doesn't have all the additives (and nicotine salts) that cigarettes have; moreover, unlike cigarette smoking, pipe smoking normally does not involve inhalation—all of which smoothes and limits the nicotine blood concentration/time curve significantly compared to cigarettes and vaping, thus eliminating most of the addictive potential.

More info on nicotine itself - this is essentially a very broad bibliography with some commentary mixed in: https://gwern.net/nicotine
At some point in the future, economics textbooks will teach about "the programmer ouroboros". A group of high-skilled people who existed between ~1960-2040, whose collaborative and open approach to information sharing was ultimately used to render their own profession defunct.
As economies develop, goods become cheaper and services become more expensive. If you visit rural Peru, a massage is roughly the same price as two gatorades - or 3 liters of clean drinking water. Shoe shining is 1/10th the price of a 1 liter bottle of clean water.

Contrast this with the US where a service like a massage would be >100x more expensive than a liter of clean drinking water. The same pattern holds true with other services such as shaves/haircuts etc.
Software engineering is search.

The iterative approach described here to finding a 'good' borgizaf is simulated annealing. Make an initial guess to the solution, then start with changes that are large early on and which increasingly refine as you get closer to your goal.

Metropolis-Hastings algorithm works better for situations for which you know even less about what a good borgizaf looks like. Perform many experiments (code changes) and toss out all of the ones that don't work. Science works this way. An automated LLM coder would probably also go this route as the cost of trying many things would be more heavily automated.

Large systems tend to look more like the genetic algorithm. The space is diced up into individual components and then each 'gene' is optimized in parallel. For example if you were trying to build a Linux distribution you'd have several hundred packages and then for each release the packages could improve or be entirely replaced with better versions (or swap back and forth as they competed).

Of course there are other search strategies that can be employed. Search is still an important area of research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%E2%80%93Hastings_al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm
The American constitution acknowledges that your rights exist independent of the law, and still exist, even if the government refuses to acknowledge them by punishing you for them. The American constitution is based on the assumption that rights derive from a higher authority that it cannot regulate. This is the sense I'm using it in.
> This discovery tells us we've missed missing something fundamental

Yes, like the fact that light and heat are both made of photons, although of different energies. /s
Why do game developers need to partner with publishers like Sony and endure shit like that? What value does a publisher add in the age of online stores like Steam?
The fact that you think people are vulnerable does not give you the right to usurp their decision-making agency from them, nor to argue that valid information should be hidden from them.

If it bothers you that they might misinterpret information or make questionable decisions, feel free to take the initiative on your own to provide them with reliable information and offer guidance in helping them make good decisions, within a context of mutual trust and accountability. If you're not willing to do that, then the best option is to keep out of it entirely.

But arguing for third parties with their own agenda to forcefully usurp their right to make their own decisions and censor information from them, just to satisfy your own feelings of concern -- derived from speculation about the situation of strangers you have no relationship with or accountability to -- is profoundly immoral.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269677
I understand that it's ongoing and I'm by no means naïve, I'm no stranger to Adderall myself but what is being suggested is to have these substances as freely available as nicotine is today. I'm not suggesting to ban nicotine but I don't think it should be considered some kind of measurable performance improvement.

That said, I really don't know, it just doesn't seem right with me but I'm happy to be proven wrong and I see another interesting comment of someone who does use patches. So it's interesting, and strange to me.
False dichotomy. (And I hate the trope that your comment embodied.)

But a CEO probably should know enough to know that certain things are not directly measurable, and should not push their direct reports into trying to directly measure those things. Otherwise the CEO gets meaningless measurements, and then tries to use the meaningless measurements to steer the business.
Microsoft's "responsible AI" chief worries about the open web
Bitwarden now official released passkey support on mobile app on iOS/Iphone in Version 2024.4.2.

If there will be a way to backup and restore between competitors, for example from bitwarden to 1password or vice versa, im fine to go with bitwarden now.
Backup and import passkeys from Bitwarden to Bitwarden already supported.

So please FIDO'S contributers, find away to standardize backup&restore passkeys.
Why Your VPN May Not Be as Secure as It Claims
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They weren't cheap, money just still had value back then.

What's bizarre is how few people understand how currency has become devalued since its separation from the gold standard, and even more so in the last 5 years. These are the same fools who put their money into "high yield" savings accounts giving them 3% when official inflation is >5%.
The very first example is preventing landlords from letting their tenants pay through the nose for heating and cooling over decades rather than implement basic efficiency upgrades.

So when it comes to saving money it would appear you need to be a landlord or a fossil fuel producer for the WSJ to care.
I experimented with that few months ago and it was very bad unfortunately. Though it may have improved. Probably for common plants it would work excellent (bell pepper, monstera) but most of the plants on the site are fairly obscure, especially the ones without images. I wouldn’t want to create a misleading image. Another AI approach might be to create simple illustrations of plants I don’t have images for, using other images as reference. I haven’t explored that yet!
That's what I use myself, but I can't really recommend it to family overseas... And even that is not safe, this will probably be the last Ubuntu release I can use before the "Ubuntu Pro", Snaps, and other integrations become unbearable.
That was my thought too. No way OpenAI hasn't been already crawling StackOverflow.
It must depend on the person. I used to smoke and drink coffee and it was much easier for me to quit smoking. I just stopped one day (12 years ago) and never looked back.

In contrast quitting caffeine took me several tries and I had to very carefully taper over the course of months to eventually be able to do it.

I also quit alcohol and that was pretty easy too. I used to drink every day and then I stopped without much trouble.
If so, then "there’s enough space for a car to go between them" is a funny way to say it.
Would be cool to sort by ‘community’ too. If you get really deep into native planting, folks recommend you get plants native to your geographic area. California has lots of these communities for example: https://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/communities
My theory is that capitalism wasn't quite as sophisticated and globalized yet, so an important project could collect literally the top 100 engineers in a field together. It's also back in a time when working for the government was a prestigious job that paid top of field.

Additionally the U.S. had probably better education and a stronger work culture. When only 5% of your country goes to college the classes can move really fast.
Ubuntu Noble installs desktop environment via Snaps
How to Defeat the Addiction Algorithms
Stack Overflow’s content is CC-BY-SA (3.0 or 4.0) [1] and they have public data dumps [2], so they cannot make prior content exclusive.

They did at one point turn off the data dumps, early in the AI in fact and likely because they wanted to sell the data. But they were reinstated after massive backlash [3]. They could do this again and make future content exclusive. But haven’t done so yet, and if they do, it will be very public.

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/344491/an-update-on....

[2] https://data.stackexchange.com

[3] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/june-2023-da...
Honestly it's not clear the SO actually gets anything out of this deal, other than:

> provide attribution to the Stack Overflow community within ChatGPT

...and that didn't seem important enough for OpenAI to bother to mention it on any of their media channels that I've seen.

so, who knows?

It feels like it's a whole lot of nothing to me, and exchange they're letting OpenAI having all of their Q/A data.

I doubt it will make any significant difference to S/O for most people; and anyone who thinks putting S/O links in a chatGPT response is going to drive traffic back to S/O is kiddddddddddding themselves.
That's really interesting actually, I've never heard of this. What gave you the idea of using nicotine in the first place ? Do you also use caffeine etc ?
Water usage, edible or not, color changing leaves, shade tolerance, soil compatibility, flowers or not, color of flowers.

Not sure if there's a way to say 'messiness factor'... some trees drop a lot of crap besides leaves.

It would be great to find native plants for your area.
KANs are equivalent to MLPs

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1clcu5i/d_...
Yes, you can see the site announcement here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415962/new-official... (Feb. 2022)
That's what I asked, how developed is it now. Why so defensive?
Just noticed that someone built a level above VegaLite: https://hexdocs.pm/tucan/readme.html
it's not even for economic gain. just pure desperation for desperation. they don't even have to offer a carrot, just let them presume there's a carrot.

> “No one told me what they’ll do with my eye,” de León, 57, told Rest of World. “But I did this out of need.”
Even 30 days is useless for me with my schedule on some items. Some of the optimization solvers are annoying that way if you're trying to get a proof of concept together to get management buy-in, but it'll take a lot of development to get there. You can use one of the generic libraries that abstracts away the solver (where you can plug most vendors in) and start with an open source option, but it's an annoying approach if I think there's a strong chance we'll end up with a particular vendor as I'd want to use their native API and avoid the additional abstraction layer.

I totally understand why it makes sense to the business, it's just hard to work it in to my schedule.

Another thing for these companies to think about is a potential customer is investing their own time in learning your product. They may not act on it right away, but I've been in situations where we had an "oh crap" moment and I was able to say go get product X, I know it works on our data sets and already have example scripts for how we can use it and the vendor indicated a price of Y last year which is like 1/5 the cost this other vendor just quoted you to start implementing this from scratch. Allowing employees some creativity to scratch that itch seems to constantly pay off in my experience as long as they're still being successful at their main job.
It’s amusing that you presume to know what people are really complaining about.

Even better is pointing out a perfectly valid concern regarding higher search costs, and then brushing that aside altogether simply because it doesn’t completely prevent search.
Ask HN: What's the most thought provoking book you've read in the past year/two?
It always seemed strange that anticheat wasn’t based on statistics. If you send too many number Ns, then you get banned. Then tuning the false positive rate is an exercise for an ML model.

It won’t work perfectly, or perhaps even well, but maybe it’d work well enough to avoid rooting your customers’ PCs.
It's wierd TSMC isn't trillion dollar company yet. Seems like they're in position to charge Nvidia/Apple tax.
OT, but your HTML is not valid. <!DOCTYPE> is declared twice.
These details were covered in depth in The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. The Oppenheimer movie glosses over a lot of the technical details. It’s worth a read.
Brilliant. Can be further simplified to 0x10880 & (0x2240 << i).
You could drink decaf I suppose. I’m skeptical of the alleged health benefits from coffee but at least it’s unlikely they come from caffeine itself.
yea me too. i don't even understand entirely why i don't use stackoverflow anymore.
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North Korea is a line on a map.

>why not help with the fighting

This is a really common refrain from paid Russian trolls. It means that someone cannot argue against an injust invasion unless they fight themselves - which is ridiculous. So you are either a troll, or just stupid. Based on the rest of your comments I'm certain you are a troll. What is really sick is that you claim to be concerned about Ukrainian lives when you are actively supporting their daily massacre.
I tend to agree with Dave Ramsey on this point. A home loan is just about the only “good” type of debt for an individual to have. Because it tends to retain or gain value with little risk. He also recommends a 15 year loan instead of 30, which has been amazing for me.
It was very hard for me to quit caffeine for this reason too. Eventually I succeeded by tapering very carefully over 3 months. This allowed me to avoid all withdrawal symptoms.
I'm not sure how this is any better/worse than if it actually were a custom OS or whatever. There is no technical reason for this to be a standalone device, just a marketing/corporate one. People are easily tricked by a physical object into thinking it will bring more value than it does, instead of being yet another brightly colored square in the sea of apps. Additionally, this allows them to control their ecosystem outside of the grasp of apple/google (even if it's based on android, they can modify the OS to do whatever and aren't bound by app/play store rules). Anything else they say has always been a front to gain sympathy.